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Mason High School class exceeds acts of kindness goal

A local school district is taking part in a national kindness campaign.

MASON, Ohio -

A Cincinnati-area school district taking part in a national kindness campaign exceeded its goal for random acts of kindness.

Mason High School's freshmen class participated in Ann Curry’s 26 Random Acts of Kindness. The campaign was organized after the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut last December. The goal of the campaign is for students to commit to do random kind things for strangers, or one act in memory of each of the 26 students and teachers that were killed in the shooting.

The Mason class pledged to perform 4,000 random acts of kindness by the end of the week.

By Friday morning, they’d performed more than 4,600 acts and raised $6,300 for Tender Mercies, an organization that helps the homeless and mentally ill.

After each good deed, students placed a blue dot in a bin. Each blue dot equates to helping less fortunate people in the community in terms of a monetary donation to the class.

The students also created a public service announcement, performing their version of the Harlem Shake. The message they want to get out: Don't let bullies keep you from dancing!

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